I was using the latest version you posted, and followed the steps from the "how to upgrade" section. Without those parameters, it also just crashes. From debug.log:
ERROR: Bitcoin: Bitcoin_CBlockUndo: ReadFromDisk : Deserialize or I/O error - CAutoFile::read : end of file
ERROR: Bitcoin: VerifyDB() : *** found bad undo data at 374525, hash=00000000000000000adb9029a216705570d80e5acacb267a911ae58f8b17ba98